Posted on 02/14/2024 10:12:48 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
"A district the Republicans should have won."
That's how, on today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough described yesterday's special election in New York's 3rd district, won by the Democrat, Tom Suozzi, who represented the district from 2017 to 2023, and so was the virtual incumbent in the race. He won the district in 2018 by 59-41 percent, and in 2020 by 56-43.
The election was held to fill the seat vacated by serial fabulist Republican George Santos, only the third person since the Civil War to be expelled from the House. There was surely significant voter sentiment wanting to punish Santos retroactively.
Moreover, it was in a district that in 2020, per Ballotpedia, Biden carried by over 10 points (although, before correcting himself, Willie Geist had said, trying to support Scarborough's point, that Trump won the district in 2020.)
Scarborough blamed Trump for the loss. This despite the fact that Mazi Pilip, the Republican candidate, had distanced herself from Trump, never endorsed him, declined to say if she even voted for Trump in 2020—and is reportedly still a registered Democrat!
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He’s rooting for Republicans now?
Heh.
If ever there were a congressional seat that was ripe to flip, it was this one.
Total BS for Scarborough to claim that the Republicans should have won — let alone that the loss is Trump’s fault!
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
Year in and year out the leftists pick one or two competitive districts and focus the full power of their fell machine upon crushing the voters there into electing a Democrat.
It is then proclaimed as some kind of bogus indicator of public sentiment.
Can we just stop posting the idiotic crap banjo boy says?
Back when he pretended to be a staunch conservative.
In 2022 the elections were rigged all over
Look at NY and California where the rigging designers ignored, thinking they had it wrapped up. Republicans flipped a ton of seats many unexpected
Rigging will be all over Ny and califbthis year
Scarborough doesn’t have an independent thought in his head
Mika’s the smart one in that relationship.
Tells us all we need to know about this.
The fix was most definitely in for NY-3.
Hey gibson guy, (I’m a Fender guy). A steel player/rec engineer told me about the best pickup for a banjo.
F150.
If you want to win in Queens and Nassau, you got to run very conservative, ardently Pro Life, Pro Trump candidates.
Voting is very rigged in NY now. One can never be sure if a democrat really won.
Not so fast. There might be some pets or house plants who would be serious contenders in the competition for smartest living being in that household.
And that's not saying much!
Heya, Fender is right there too. When you need a Strat you need a Strat, same holds true for a Tele.
Biden is supposedly the current President.
Does Joe talk about anything except President Trump?
Trump didnt endorse anyone in this race he stayed out of it considering it was New York..and the reason why the GOP lost is simple, for some reason they are allergic to voting EARLY..they had 9 days to vote early and they didnt, they only voted on election day..the Dems already had an advantage that is why they lost
Do you mean a “staunch conservative” like the eternally tan Charlie Christ?
So. How big WAS the steal this time? And what about the Republican candidate herself, Mazi Pilip? Who was really on her side in this race?
So many questions, so little good reliable information.
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